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Tim Scott: “I would ask you simply as Secretary of HHS, will you, in fact, be the Health and Human Services Secretary for the…”

On the recordMay 7, 2014
I would ask you simply as Secretary of HHS, will you, in fact, be the Health and Human Services Secretary for the American people or will you be, as your predecessor has been, the Ambassador of Obamacare?
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Tim Scott
Republican · South Carolina

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Scott questions Burwell's commitment to serve the public versus promoting Obamacare.

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